Registration closes this Friday 11th September for ‘After-Image: Life-Writing and Celebrity’ conference on 19 September 2015 in Oxford.

Through this conference we will be considering the interplay between celebrity and life-writing. The conference will explore ideas of image, persona and self-fashioning in an historical as well as a contemporary context and the role these concepts play in the writing of lives. Keynote speakers are Andrew O’Hagan and Sarah Churchwell.